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A Sepik Ancestor Figure.
This figure has served as a Betel-Nut Mortar. It is carved as a complete Janus figure, which even the more rare as the body of both figures is the same one. Carved in beak-style with deep hollow eyes, a heavy looking body on strong legs and large feet (on both sides!) The strong figure iconographically seems to be really set for the purpose to sustain the heavy force of crunching betel nuts on the small vessel in its hands, sustaining it with its strong body. Form and function unite in a great artistic solution. Sepik, New Guinea. 21 cm.
890 EUR.
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